The National Fire Corps of Italy and Alert-Hub.Org CIC hosted the 2025 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop. Co-sponsors were the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) and the OASIS Open standards organization. The 2025 CAP Implementation Workshop and Training was held 21-23 October in Rome, Italy, at the National Fire Corps Academy (Istituto Superiore Antincendi, ISA). A Zoom Webinar was offered for those who could not participate in person.
The Workshop and Training events had about 900 persons registered as participants. They were from 143 countries/territories, and many international organizations, commercial companies, academic institutions, or other non-governmental organizations. About 50 people participated in person, and the photo below shows in-person participants on 22 October.
Recordings of the 2025 CAP Workshop and Training Webinars are at the following links. Enter the given passcode when prompted.
· Training Day: 22 October Webinar - 1.5 GB Passcode: N5dVZ.MN
· Workshop Day One: 23 October Webinar - 3.2 GB Passcode: 9q#7@vvG
· Workshop Day Two: 24 October Webinar - 2.2 GB Passcode: &9U*m5j8
The following other documents might be also of interest:
· The Programme lists all Workshop agenda topics and links to the presentations;
· The list of Speakers includes speaker biographies, portraits and links to the presentations;
· The list of Participants gives name and organizational affiliation of registered participants.
Representing the EMTC, presentations were given by
Norm Paulsen, The What and How of CAP - An OASIS Open Training Overview [video 230 MB]
Mark Wood and Thomas Wood, A Deep Dive into Cell Broadcast [video 203 MB]
Elysa gave an overview report on the current work of the EMTC [video 42MB]
Elysa Jones chairs the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee (EMTC). She noted that EMTC emphasizes global collaboration and the continued importance of CAP for all hazard types and dissemination methods. She explained that the EMTC meets monthly and oversees voting-level EMTC Subcommittee work. She also mentioned several other EMTC products: Emergency Data Exchange Language Distribution Element (EDXL-DE), Hospital Availability Exchange (HAVE), Tracking of Emergency Patients (TEP), Resource Messaging (RM), Situation Reporting (SitRep), and Tracking of Emergency Clients (TEC). There are two active ETMTC Subcommittees that meet on a bi-weekly basis: the CAP Subcommittee and the Reference Information Model (RIM) Subcommittee.
There are two main expository work products of the CAP-SC: The Mobile Alerting Practices (MAP) Committee Note documents the details for mobile alert dissemination. There are currently submittals for United States, Canada, France, Netherlands, Germany, and Romania. The other activity in the CAP-SC has been the development of two Committee Notes on the OASIS Event Terms List. These two documents are ready for public review through Jan 31, 2026.
These two documents are ready for public review through Feb, 08, 2026:
Event Terms List – Lookup Table Version 2.0 Committee Note 01 Public Review 01 and
Event Terms List – User’s Guide Version 1.0 Committee Note 01 Public Review 01.
Elysa concluded by inviting EMTC participation by anyone interested in supporting the work of the OASIS EMTC to contact her.
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